Richard Arthur
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785395 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Arthur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Arthur |
| SIGNATURE | ARTHUR R |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0531-1786 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1906 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tracing the Origins of Leibniz’s Principle of the Equipollence of Hypotheses
Dans la Dynamica , Leibniz énonce ce qu’il appelle le principe d’équipollence des hypothèses , et propose un argument pour ce principe à partir d’un principe plus général que nous pouvons appeler le principe des déterminants indiscernables (PDI). Dans cet article, j’analyse le lien étroit entre le PDI, la loi de continuité de Leibniz et les fondements de ses mathématiques, et je retrace l’interconnexion de tous ces principes et leur origine dans …
Leibniz and the Natural World
In 1900 Bertrand Russell noted memorably that on first reading Leibniz he felt ‘that the Monadology was a kind of fantastic fairy tale, coherent perhaps, but wholly arbitrary’ (A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz, p. xvii). This, indeed, is how it still comes out on the dominant interpretation in the English‐speaking world. For on this idealist reading, Leibniz is portrayed as identifying the true referents of our thoughts and perc…
Mathematischer, naturwissenschaftlicher und technischer Briefwechsel. Volume 4
Space and Relativity in Newton and Leibniz
In this paper I challenge the usual interpretations of Newton's and Leibniz's views on the nature of space and the relativity of motion. Newton's ‘relative space’ is not a reference frame; and Leibniz did not regard space as defined with respect to actual enduring bodies. Newton did not subscribe to the relativity of intertial motions; whereas Leibniz believed no body to be at rest, and Newton's absolute motion to be a useful fiction. A more accu…
Continuous Creation, Continuous Time
Continuous Creation, Continuous Time: A Refutation of the Alleged Discontinuity of Cartesian Time RICHARD T. W. ARTHUR 1. INTRODUCTION ACCORDING to Yvon Belaval, ~ "everyone knows that time is discontinuous" in Descartes' philosophy, and as an assessment of received opinion on the subject , this statement can hardly be faulted. For all commentators on Descartes this century have followed Kemp Smith, Vigier, and Wahl in asserting the discontinuity…
Ten Thousand Miles in a Yacht round the West Indies and up the Amazon
Space and Relativity in Newton and Leibniz
In this paper I challenge the usual interpretations of Newton's and Leibniz's views on the nature of space and the relativity of motion. Newton's ‘relative space’ is not a reference frame; and Leibniz did not regard space as defined with respect to actual enduring bodies. Newton did not subscribe to the relativity of intertial motions; whereas Leibniz believed no body to be at rest, and Newton's absolute motion to be a useful fiction. A more accu…
Ten Thousand Miles in a Yacht round the West Indies and up the Amazon
Continuous Creation, Continuous Time
Continuous Creation, Continuous Time: A Refutation of the Alleged Discontinuity of Cartesian Time RICHARD T. W. ARTHUR 1. INTRODUCTION ACCORDING to Yvon Belaval, ~ "everyone knows that time is discontinuous" in Descartes' philosophy, and as an assessment of received opinion on the subject , this statement can hardly be faulted. For all commentators on Descartes this century have followed Kemp Smith, Vigier, and Wahl in asserting the discontinuity…
Space and Relativity in Newton and Leibniz
In this paper I challenge the usual interpretations of Newton's and Leibniz's views on the nature of space and the relativity of motion. Newton's ‘relative space’ is not a reference frame; and Leibniz did not regard space as defined with respect to actual enduring bodies. Newton did not subscribe to the relativity of intertial motions; whereas Leibniz believed no body to be at rest, and Newton's absolute motion to be a useful fiction. A more accu…
Mathematischer, naturwissenschaftlicher und technischer Briefwechsel. Volume 4
Leibniz and the Natural World
In 1900 Bertrand Russell noted memorably that on first reading Leibniz he felt ‘that the Monadology was a kind of fantastic fairy tale, coherent perhaps, but wholly arbitrary’ (A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz, p. xvii). This, indeed, is how it still comes out on the dominant interpretation in the English‐speaking world. For on this idealist reading, Leibniz is portrayed as identifying the true referents of our thoughts and perc…
Tracing the Origins of Leibniz’s Principle of the Equipollence of Hypotheses
Dans la Dynamica , Leibniz énonce ce qu’il appelle le principe d’équipollence des hypothèses , et propose un argument pour ce principe à partir d’un principe plus général que nous pouvons appeler le principe des déterminants indiscernables (PDI). Dans cet article, j’analyse le lien étroit entre le PDI, la loi de continuité de Leibniz et les fondements de ses mathématiques, et je retrace l’interconnexion de tous ces principes et leur origine dans …
Epistemology (4 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Absolute time and space (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Amazon rainforest (1 work)